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than women to gain admission on the basis of immigration criteria related to labor market considerations rather than family … female immigration flows. Therefore, our findings of similar patterns for men and women and of the key role played by … national origin both suggest that factors other than immigration policy per se are important contributors to the observed skill …
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benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale … of a selective immigration policy and provides empirical evidence about the adverse effects of current selection …
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In this paper, we provide a quantitative answer to the question what types of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of...
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A wave of local anti-immigration laws has swept the country, triggering contentious debate and raising significant … federal immigration laws, some restrict benefits like housing and employment to those with legal immigration status, and some … data: a legal data set that we compiled of restrictive immigration laws enacted by cities and counties and the County …
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inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants …, and the impact of immigration on the wages and employment opportunities of native workers. We show that low …, this is not the case. Finally, we survey the pertinent academic literature and conclude that, on the whole, immigration to …
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emigration-immigration country. The latter, namely immigration, was boosted by the European Union membership and by stable and … immigration policy and also its analysis are still scarce. In this paper we try to present and discuss the available information … on immigration to Poland and instruments of integration policy in the context of the existing institutional framework. We …
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about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the … immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and …
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the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth changed substantially, with an increasing number of immigrants …
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skilled immigrants resulted from a series of distinct labour market policies adopted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and …
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Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States, and there has been a heated debate over the impact of legislative or executive efforts to regularize the status of this population. This paper examines the determinants of earnings for undocumented workers. Using newly developed...
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